Home EducationJackson and Walford, 1838 - 379 sider |
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abstract abstruse acquired actually adapted advantage animal astronomy attention chamber of darkness child childhood conceptive faculty course daugh descriptive domestic system early effect emotions endeavours entire especially excitement exercise fact familiar favourable feeling give habit happiness home education human mind ideas imagination important infant instances intel intellectual culture intelligence intended intuition kind knowledge labour language learned learner less manner means ment mental merely methods modes Natural Theology nature notions objects oblate spheroid operation parents peculiar perception perhaps period philosophical phrases pleasure practical present principle proper purpose racter ratiocinative rational reason recollection regard relation render school discipline secure sensations sensations of sight sense of resemblance soap bubble sort spontaneous suppose tastes teacher things thought tical tion tivated truth uncon vivacity vivid words young persons
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Side 332 - Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Side 332 - Couched, and now filled with pasture gazing sat, Or bedward ruminating: for the sun Declined was hasting now with prone career To the Ocean Isles, and in the ascending scale Of heaven the stars that usher evening rose: When Satan still in gaze, as first he stood, Scarce thus at length failed speech recovered sad.
Side 332 - His lithe. proboscis; close the serpent sly Insinuating wove with Gordian twine His braided train, and of his fatal guile Gave proof unheeded ; others on the grass Couch'd, and now fill'd with pasture gazing sat, Or bedward ruminating : for the sun Declined was hasting now with prone career To th...
Side 25 - ... scholarship, or in mathematical proficiency, they are actually inferior to them in variety of information, in correctness of taste, and in general maturity of understanding ; as well as in propriety of conduct, in self-government, in steadiness and elevation of principle, and in force and depth of feeling. With young men of ingenuous tempers, this consciousness of their sisters...
Side 62 - ALL ; and they have still a home, and a sphere of love to think of. But to rule them in any such way at home itself, is to wind out of their hearts, by a slow but certain process, every root and fibre of the affections ; nor will it fail to render them, in the end, murky, obdurate, crafty, selfish, and malign.
Side 132 - God, who makes the sun to know His proper hour to rise, And to give light to all below, Doth send him round the skies. When from the chambers of the east His morning race begins, He never tires, nor stops to rest, But round the world he shines.
Side 39 - ... thoroughly happy childhood (other advantages not wanting) is the very best preparation, moral and intellectual, with which to encounter the duties and cares of real life. A sunshine childhood is an auspicious inheritance, with which, as a fund, to commence trading in practical wisdom and active goodness. It is a great thing only to have known by experience that tranquil, temperate felicity is actually attainable on earth ; and we should think so if we knew how many have pursued a reckless course,...
Side 66 - ... rational purpose. There is a species of love not liable to be worn by time, or slackened, as, from year to year, children become less and less dependent upon parental care: — it is a feeling which possesses the energy of the most vehement passions, along with the calmness and appliancy of the gentlest affections ; a feeling purged, as completely as any human sentiment can be, of the grossness of earth ; and which seems to have been conferred upon human nature as a sample of emotions proper...
Side 327 - ... force themselves upon our notice, as samples of humanity in caricature. The first stirring of intellectuality in a people, as they emerge from barbarism, shows itself by catching at these same analogies ; and what is true of a nation in its infancy, is true of childhood itself; for the mind no sooner opens than it seizes upon those very resemblances, and nourishes itself with them.
Side 17 - That every thing, in method and in matter, may be exactly adapted to the individual capacities and tastes of the learner, and the utmost advantage secured for every special talent: 3dly, That it is, or may be, wholly exempt from the incumbrance and...